Warrea
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Warrea (named for Frederick Warre, who discovered the first species in Brazil). Orchidaceae. Plants with the habit of small forms of Phaius. Lvs. few, long, plicate: scape tall, bracted, bearing a raceme of terminal showy fls.: sepals and petals subequal, concave, the lateral sepals united with the base of the column; labellum not spurred, united with the base of the column, undivided, concave, with longitudinal ridges; column without appendages; pollinia 4, with a narrow stipe. —Two species, Peru and Colombia. They require the same treatment as phaius. W. cyanea, Lindl.-Aganisia cyanea.
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- Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963